Julia Kim's original name is "Hong-Sun
Yoon". "Hong-Sun", meaning "Doing good to
everyone", is her first name and "Yoon" is her last name.
"Julia" is from her Patron Saint received at the time of her
baptism in 1981 and "Kim" is the last name of her husband, an
employee in the agricultural department of the City of Naju, whom she
married in 1972. In Korea, she is called "Yoon Yulia", which can
sound confusing to the Westerners.

Hong-Sun was born in 1947 to a middle-class
family in the small city of Naju (current population: 109,000) in the
southwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula, famous for large and delicious
pears. In some of the earlier centuries, Naju had been a more important
political and military center than Gwangju (20 km northeast of Naju;
current population: 1.5 million and the capital of the South Junla
Province). Hong-Sun's father was a respected scholar in Chinese literature
and schoolteacher, but was killed by the invading North Korean soldiers in
1950. Her grandfather was forcefully taken to North Korea with no further
information about him. Her younger sister also died of poor health during
the war. Because of the extreme poverty during and after the war, Hong-Sun
could not continue her education after elementary school, as her mother
had difficulty in supporting their survival alone. Hong-Sun experienced
many kinds of difficulties including harsh treatment at work. Frequently,
she could not receive wages for her work and was beaten by her seniors who
took her wages. Probably, the severe hardship during her early years was a
preparation for the more painful life in her adult years. While struggling
with difficulties in living, Hong-Sun did not neglect to extend kindness
and assistance to those who were less fortunate than herself, frequently
sharing with them whatever little she had. From her later teenage years,
she worked in a beauty salon learning the trade of hairdressing.

Miraculous healing of her cancer and conversion to the
Catholic Faith

Hong-Sun and her husband had two sons and
two daughters, all grown-up and married now. In the late 1970s, she was
diagnosed with colon cancer. As the cancer continued spreading and caused
serious complications, the doctors eventually gave up and sent her home.
While she was preparing for a certain death, her husband came home early
from work one day, which he had never done before, and took Hong-Sun to
the Catholic church in Naju. At that time, Julia was a Presbyterian and
her husband, Man-Bok, previously had sometimes visited the Catholic
churches. Hong-Sun said to the parish priest, "If there really is
a God, he has been very cruel to me. Why should I drink this bitter
cup (meaning death)?" The priest responded, "Lady, you
are receiving more grace than me through your body." At that
moment, she began feeling her whole body, which had been cold all the
time, becoming hot and sweating profusely with the heat from the Holy
Spirit. After she came home, she randomly opened the Bible and read the
verses she saw: And a woman afflicted with hemorrhage for twelve
years came up behind him and touched the tassel on his cloak. Immediately
her bleeding stopped. Jesus then asked, "Who touched me?" While
all were denying it, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are pushing and
pressing in upon you." But Jesus said, "Someone has touched me;
for I know that power has gone out from me." When the woman realized
that she had not escaped notice, she came forward trembling. Falling down
before him, she explained in the presence of all the people why she had
touched him and how she had been healed immediately. He said to her,
"Daughter, your faith has saved you; go in peace." (Luke
8: 43-48). Hong-Sun felt that the Words of Jesus were also meant for her
and said loudly "Amen". She immediately began
recovering from the cancer and the complications. She was completely
healed. Hong-Sun and her family were filled with joy, gratitude, and
amazement. They took the instructions in the Naju parish church and were
baptized on Easter Sunday of 1981. Hong-Sun and her husband received the
baptismal names: Julia and Julio, respectively. Their children's new names
were Rosa, Thomas, Theresa, and Philip. Julia opened her own beauty salon
and became well known among her customers for her good skill and kindness.
She and her husband were fervent in their prayer life and in working for
the Naju parish. Julia also joined the Blue Army.

Julia asked the Lord for a life of suffering

One evening, when Julia was praying in her
room, she saw a vision of Jesus bleeding miserably from His torn Heart
because of the sins of so many people in the world. She was deeply shocked
and asked Jesus to allow her to suffer some of His sufferings so that He
may suffer less, even by a little. This prayer was granted and, since
then, Julia has been experiencing many different kinds of severe physical
pains as well as inner sufferings almost every day. In recent years, her
pains have further intensified probably because of the accumulating sins
in the world including the continuing rejection of the messages and
miracles in Naju by the clergy especially in Korea. On April 22, 2011,
Good Friday, Julia and the pilgrims were doing the Stations of the Cross
on the Blessed Mother's Mountain in Naju. Julia was suffering enormously
and bleeding from her head and the wounds on her legs and back caused by
(mystical) scourging while walking with great difficulty from one Station
to the next. She could not bear the overwhelming pain very long and lost
all the energy in her body and died at the 12th Station. Several priests,
Sisters, and lay pilgrims witnessed and confirmed Julia's death. (For the
photographs of that day, please visit our website: www.marys
-touch.com). Then, Julia's soul was taken to Heaven and was before God
the Father, Who said:

". . . I wish to send down the
chastisement on this world filled with sins, but I cannot strike with my
hand of justice lifted high because there is a little soul like you who
so generously laid down even your life. . . Well, then, return to
the world and cry out. If there were no soul like you in the world who
is totally loyal and renders a completely devoted service to Me, the
world filled with pitch-black darkness would have been reduced to ashes.
So, I give you one more chance. Go and cry out without delay."

As soon as God the Father finished
speaking, Julia saw Him breathing into her and giving a blessing to the
world with His outstretched hands. The messages that Julia received from
God the Father and Jesus on April 22, 2011 were the most recent ones. It
is not certain if they were the last messages in Naju or not. From God the
Father's Words above, we know that the terrifying chastisement on the
world has been delayed (for a while) thanks to Julia's sufferings. God the
Father gave us one more chance and sent His blessing to the world.
Therefore, we are now walking through the last precious chance given to
the world before the chastisement. Previously, the Blessed Mother has said
repeatedly that prayers and sacrifices are still insufficient to stop the
just anger of God from falling on the earth (despite Julia's enormous
sufferings and prayers). The essence of all the messages and miraculous
signs in Naju is to move and mobilize the hearts of more people to join
the Blessed Mother's efforts by repenting their sins and reforming their
lives and offering up more prayers and sacrifices for the conversion and
salvation of other people.

Numerous miraculous signs in Naju confirm

the
divine origin and urgency of the messages

The miraculous phenomena that Julia had
experienced in the early years (such as the healing of her cancer, the
vision of Our Lord bleeding, and the ability to know people's inner
thoughts, the last of which was removed from her when she prayed that it
be taken away.) were thought to be for the benefit of her private faith
life and her own spiritual growth only. Gradually, however, the perception
that the numerous signs and messages could not be just for one or a few
individuals but must be for the whole Church and whole world has
developed. To take just one example, the Blessed Mother began shedding
tears through her statue in Julia's room just before midnight on June 30,
1985. On October 19, 1986, she began shedding not just clear tears but
also tears of blood. So far she has shed tears and tears of blood for more
than 700 days through the same statue. How can such powerful and lasting
signs be just for a few individuals? The phenomenon of the tears was
promptly reported to the parish priest and most likely to the Archbishop
in Gwangju as well. The Naju pastor and several Sisters came and saw the
statue shedding tears. While Pope John Paul II was visiting Siracusa,
Italy, on November 6, 1994, he delivered a homily during the Mass, in
which he spoke about the Blessed Mother's tears, which should also apply
to the tears in Naju:

"Her tears confirm that there is a
Mother in the Church and in the world. A mother weeps when her children
are faced with threats of evil whether they are physical or spiritual. Her
tears are tears of prayer. Oh, Blessed Mother of Tears! Look down at the
sufferings in this world with your motherly mercy. Wipe away the tears
from the eyes of those who are suffering, those who have become forgotten
and fallen into despair, and those who have become victims of violence.
After everyone sees the deep love in the Mother's Heart, let them shed the
tears of joy. Praise to Jesus Christ!"

In Siracusa, the Blessed Mother shed tears
through an image of hers on August 29, 1953. After the doctors' scientific
examination, the Archbishop of Siracusa officially recognized the
phenomenon as supernatural in September 1953. In October 1953, Pope Pius
XII, added his confirmation during a radio broadcast.

As the number of visitors increased to
hundreds and even thousands per day, the statue in Julia's apartment was
moved on December 8, 1987 to a larger space called "the chapel"
built with the donations from the faithful in Belgium. Fr. Raymond Spies,
Julia's spiritual director until 1997 originally had come from Belgium
before he worked in Japan as a missionary priest and, then, came to Korea
(Note: The Gwangju Archdiocese stated in its Declaration of January
1, 1998 that no priest other than the Pastor of Naju could be Julia's
spiritual director. Especially, Fr. Luke Hong-Chul Song, the Pastor of
Naju from 2001 to 2005, severely persecuted Naju, even saying that he
would demolish the chapel with a bulldozer and having made it impossible
for Julio and Julia to attend Masses in the Naju parish church by
requiring Julia to declare that all messages and miracles had been
fabricated by her before they could be accepted back into the parish).
Frequently, this chapel has become filled with a strong and pleasant
heavenly fragrance similar to the scent of roses. On November 24, 1992,
the Blessed Mother exuded fragrant oil from the head of her statue for the
first time. Fragrant oil continued to flow down, and many little pieces of
linen were soaked with the fragrant oil and sent to many of the priests
and lay people around the world. In her message on April 8, 1993, the
Blessed Mother said, "The fragrance and the oil that I give for
the sake of all are gifts from God and also signs of my presence, love,
and friendship."

To confirm the truthfulness of the Catholic
Church's teaching that the Holy Eucharist is not just a sign of Jesus
Christ Our Savior but truly and fully His Real and Living Presence with
His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, Our Lord has performed 13 miracles of
the Eucharistic species changing into the visible and living Flesh and
Blood of Our Lord on Julia Kim's tongue when she received Holy Communion
between May 16, 1991 and February 28, 2010. Most notably, the miracle in a
Vatican chapel on October 31, 1995 was personally witnessed by Pope John
Paul II and, later in March 2001, was accepted by him as a true miracle.
In addition, on three occasions, the Eucharist bled not in Julia's mouth
but in a ciborium or a reliquary (November 24, 2002, May 6, 2005, and
October 16, 2006). Also, on 16 occasions, the Eucharist descended from
above without any indication of a priest's consecration of the host with
one exception (The Eucharist that descended on Julia's hand on November
24, 1994 was brought by St. Michael the Archangel to the chapel from a
Mass celebrated by a priest in sin according to the Blessed Mother's
message). On September 22, 1995, the day of the Eucharistic miracle on the
Blessed Mother's Mountain witnessed by Bishop Roman Danylak from Canada,
Our Lord gave us the following message:

"If my priests, who celebrate Mass
every day, truly believe and feel My Real Presence and live the sublime
and amazing Divine Reality, numerous souls will be purified and live in
the grace from My merciful Heart beyond expectations through this Real
Presence of Mine. Make My Physical Presence known without delay. This
world is now on the brink of destruction because of human degradation,
apostasy and infidelity, but too many of my ministers are asleep. Thus,
even my ministers are being misled by false prophets. The present
disorders are tormenting Me and keep tearing apart My Heart. This also
becomes a whip and keeps tearing apart My Mother's Immaculate Heart.

My little souls who have been called! You
will experience misunderstanding and persecution in the Church which has
been wounded and divided. But I will always dwell in you and encourage and
help you at your side. Therefore, do not fear but make known with trust My
Living Presence in the Eucharist. I have shown signs repeatedly through my
little soul to enlighten the many priests and numerous other children who
say that they know My Real Presence and My breathing in the Eucharist with
My Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, and yet do not really know it. Only
very few children follow Me. Even many priests forget about the sublime
simplicity of the Holy Eucharist, which is My Physical Presence, and of
the Gospels which I teach, and they are trying to explain Me with
deceptive talks and complicated reasonings. This is like throwing mud at
simple people.

My beloved children! Do not reject My pleas
which I make in this mannerwhile
being truly present in the Eucharist. If people do not want to acquire
true understanding, do not follow My Will to bestow Love upon them, deny
the Divinity and deny the Divine Origin (of the Eucharist), then, they
will face the anger of God the Father."

In addition, beginning in November 2001,
Our Lord's Precious Blood, and sometimes the Blessed Mother's tears of
blood as well, came down on the numerous little rocks and some fallen tree
leaves on the Blessed Mother's Mountain, in Julia's bedroom, and on the
clothes of many pilgrims including some priests. These remind us of the
record in Exodus 24:8, where it says that Moses had the blood of
male calves be sprinkled upon the Israelite people as a sign of the
covenant between God and them and also of the words in I Peter
1:2, where Peter says that he greets those who are obedient to Jesus
Christ and are chosen to receive His Blood sprinkled upon them.

Pope John Paul II's recognition of

the
Eucharistic miracle of October 31, 1995

During the Korean Bishops' ad limina
visit to the Vatican in 1991, Archbishop Victorinus Gong-Hee Youn of
Gwangju reported to Pope John Paul II, "In my diocese, a statue
of the Blessed Mother shed tears." In response, the Holy
Father said, "In such matters, it is important to observe the
fruits." Then, on October 31, 1995, one year before the
Korean Bishops' next ad limina visit in 1996, the Holy Father
witnessed the Eucharistic miracle through Julia in the Vatican chapel on
October 31, 1995. The Holy Father also received much information about
Naju through Archbishop Giovanni Bulaitis, the Apostolic Nuncio who had
visited Naju on November 24, 1994. To the Korean Bishops in 1996, the Holy
Father said: "Share the wonderful grace in Naju with other
countries in Asia". We have also been informed that the Holy
Father was looking at the photographs of the Blessed Mother shedding tears
and tears of blood in Naju without stopping for about 40 minutes, with his
hands slightly raised as he would during the prayers of the Mass.

Then, on January 1, 1998, the Gwangju
Archdiocese shocked the faithful in the whole world by announcing a
negative Declaration on Naju. When the Korean Bishops returned to the
Vatican in early March 2001 for their adlimina visit, the
Holy Father threw a serious question at the Bishops during a lunch
meeting: "How is the situation in Naju?" None of
the bishops was willing or ready to answer the Pope's question.
Uncomfortable silence continued for a long time: the Pope anxiously
waiting and the Bishops not knowing how to respond to the Holy Father's
question. Even though the Pope's question was a brief one, it probably
contained several specific questions such as: What have you done during
the past five years about my request in 1996 to share the grace of Naju
with other countries in Asia?Why did you announce the negative
Declaration on Naju on January 1, 1998 without asking me first? How could
you do so, if you remembered my request five years ago and if you knew
about my position on the Eucharistic miracle in the Vatican on October 31,
1995? Finally, about 20 minutes later, Bishop Paul Kim of the Cheju
Diocese in Korea, sitting next to the Holy Father, said: "Your
Holiness!I will make a detailed report after the lunch".
So, Bishop Kim alone made a detailed oral report to the Pope for about one
hour, explaining the situation in Naju and the Korean Church in
considerable detail. When Bishop Kim finished, the Holy Father expressed
much joy and satisfaction. Obviously, he was extremely happy to hear such
a sincere, honest, and detailed report on Naju and the Church in Korea
from a Korean Bishop. He made a big smile despite some difficulty in
making facial expressions because of his illness and embraced Bishop Kim's
shoulders. The Holy Father told Bishop Kim thathe would send
instruction to the (appropriate) office. What the Holy
Father said and did on that day as well as what he had done before
concerning Naju were not his private actions but his official actions as
the Supreme Shepherd of the Catholic Church. No one should harbor the
imprudent idea that his words and actions about Naju probably were for his
private devotion only.

The concrete fruits of the Holy Father's
instruction became visible in May of the same year (2001). One of them
happened at the shrine of St. Michael the Archangel at Monte Sant'Angelo,
about 20 km east of San Giovanni Rotondo, St. (Padre) Pio of Pietrelcina's
shrine. In the church at St. Michael's shrine, the photographs of the
Eucharistic miracle on October 31, 1995 and explanation in Italian were
displayed along with other Eucharistic miracles in Lanciano, Siena,
Orvieto, and so on, all already officially recognized by the Church, which
was an indication that the miracle through Julia in the Vatican was being
presented to the public as one of the miracles recognized by the Church.
After all, the Pope has the exclusive authority to make decisions on the
miracles that occurred in the Vatican or Rome. The Italian pilgrimage
guide mentioned that a display like this would not be possible without an
explicit instruction or approval by the Holy See, as the Holy Father
himself was involved in the miracle. The printed explanation in Italian on
the wall said, "The Holy Father not only witnessed the
Eucharistic miracle through Julia Kim on October 31, 1995 but he was one
of the main participants in the supernatural phenomenon".
This was a very correct observation, as it was obvious that Our Lord and
Our Lady performed this Eucharistic miracle through Julia that day for
Pope John Paul II. It was a powerful sign and message from God to the Pope
for the benefit of the whole Church. It is also significant that the
shrine of St. Michael the Archangel was chosen as the site for displaying
the information on the Eucharistic miracle of October 31, 1995. The Angel
had appeared there three times in 490, 492, and 493 A.D. signifying his
victory over the devil and the consequent opening of a God-centered era
(to last until the 15th Century). We hear that the same display
still continues at the shrine of St. Michael the Archangel, eleven years
after the beginning of the display. In addition, the Holy See also gave
permission to a major Catholic TV station in Italy to air the information
about the Eucharistic miracle in the Vatican and the more general
information about Naju all over Italy. The Pope's clear and forceful
actions regarding the Eucharistic miracle through Julia Kim on October 31,
1995 as manifested by a public display at a world-famous shrine and a TV
broadcasting all over Italy carried a strong message to the Universal
Church and, especially, to the Church in Korea not to waste more time but
carry out an objective and honest re-examination and, based on the
results, approve Naju so that the evangelization of Asia and the
re-vitalization of the Catholic Faith in the whole world may be
facilitated.

More Eucharistic miracles in Naju and in Sibu, Malaysia

On September 22, 1995, about a month before Julia's
above-mentioned visit to the Vatican, Bishop Roman Danylak (a Ukranian
Catholic Bishop presiding in Toronto, Canada), Fr. Joseph Finn (a
theologian from London, Canada), and Fr. Aloysius Chang, a pastor in the
Gwangju Archdiocese, celebrated a Mass on the Blessed Mother's Mountain in
Naju. When Julia received the Holy Communion from the Bishop, the
Eucharist on her tongue changed into visible and live Flesh and Blood in
the shape of a heart (Please see the photographs of this miracle in our
website: www.marys-touch.com,
Photo Gallery #2). Bishop Danylak intently investigated this miracle and
wrote a sworn testimony.

On September 17, 1996, Julia went to
Malaysia and attended the Mass celebrated by Bishop Dominic Su and other
priests in Sacred Heart Cathedral of the Sibu Diocese. Bishop Dominic Su,
the Ordinary of the Sibu Diocese officially recognized this miracle in his
letter to Archbishop Giovanni Bulaitis, the Apostolic Nuncio to Korea from
1991 to 1997. At the end of this letter, Bishop Su stated, "Our
Lord Jesus performed this miracle in order to confirm our faith in His
real presence in the Eucharist".

The second Eucharistic miracle

in
the Vatican on February 28, 2010

On February 28, 2010, Julia and her
companions from Korea attended the Mass concelebrated by Archbishop
Giovanni Bulaitis, the retired Apostolic Nuncio to Korea, and Fr. Aloysius
Chang in a chapel under the jurisdiction of the Vatican. Mrs. Ccilia
Pohl from Germany was also present. During the Mass, the second
Eucharistic miracle in the Vatican occurred through Julia. Archbishop
Bulaitis wrote a detailed testimony together with other witnesses (several
Italian Sisters, Mrs. Pohl, and Julia's companions from Korea) and
reported this miracle to Cardinal Ivan Dias, the Prefect of the
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Several days later,
Cardinal Dias reported this to Pope Benedict XVI. The Cardinal also gave
the Holy Father a Eucharist that bled in a ciborium in Naju on October 16,
2006 that Julia had brought to Rome in obedience to the Lord's
instruction. After hearing the Cardinal's report and seeing the Eucharist
that bled, the Holy Father said, "I am positive on Naju."
Mrs. Pohl wrote a detailed testimony after her return to Germany and sent
the copies to priests and many lay people in Germany and Austria with a
strong response from them. Mrs. Pohl has led pilgrimage groups of Germans
and Austrians to Naju several times so far. The English version of Mrs.
Pohl's testimony is available on our website (www.marys-touch.com).

The Gwangju Archdiocese maintains its negative position
on Naju

While the grace from Heaven continues
pouring down on the world through Naju, the Gwangju Archdiocese's
tenacious efforts to prevent the information about Naju from spreading and
to stop the pilgrims from coming to Naju also continue. Until now, the
Gwangju Archdiocese has issued five Declarations to condemn Naju: (1) the
first Declaration signed by Archbishop Victorinus Gong-Hee Youn on January
1, 1998; (2) the second Declaration under Archbishop Andrew Chang-Moo Choi
on May 27, 2001 (who succeeded Archbishop Victorinus Youn near the end of
2000); (3) the third Declaration also under Archbishop Andrew Chang-Moo
Choi on May 25, 2006; (4) the fourth Declaration also under Archbishop
Andrew Chang-Moo Choi on November 19, 2007); and (5) the fifth Declaration
under Archbishop Hyginus Hee-Joong Kim on May 1, 2011 (who succeeded
Archbishop Andrew Choi in March 2010). The date of the last Declaration,
May 1, 2011, coincided with the date of the Beatification of John Paul II,
who had been a firm and fervent believer and supporter of Naju and had
approved the Eucharistic miracle that he had personally witnessed on
October 31, 1995. If the Congregation for the Causes of Saints had judged
John Paul II's support of Naju incorrect or inappropriate, they would not
have recommended the beatification of John Paul II to Pope Benedict XVI.
It is not right that the Beatification of Pope John Paul II and the
condemnation and persecution of Naju coexist. The Gwangju Archdiocese's
announcing the fifth negative Declaration on Naju on the day of John Paul
II's Beatification could be perceived as an insult to him and an act of
defiance to the current Holy Father who approved the beatification.

In addition to the five negative
Declarations on Naju, the Gwangju Archdiocese also issued a Decree on
January 21, 2008, very soon after the Korean Bishops returned from their ad
limina visit to the Holy See from the late November to the early
December 2007. This Decree was relatively brief, but contained two drastic
statements: (1) Fr. Aloysius
Chang (a long-time
supporter of Naju) is expelled from the Gwangju Archdiocese
and (2) anyone, regardless of his
or her status and diocese, who visits Naju is automatically excommunicated.
Based on the five Declarations and the Decree issued by Gwangju
Archdiocese, all of the Catholic dioceses in Korea keep the same negative
position on Naju and persecute those who continue visiting Naju. The
Korean priests and religious are completely forbidden to visit Naju, even
though a small number of priests sometimes visit Naju dressed like laymen.
The Declarations and the Decree issued by the Gwangju Archdiocese are
discussed in more detail below.

Problems in the official announcementsby the Gwangju Archdiocese

The Gwangju Archdiocese has never conducted
scientific exminations of the evidence of the miracles in Naju;
neither did they conduct any meaningful investigation of the witnesses

If it happened in a Western country with
a long Catholic tradition that the Blessed Mother's statue shed tears
and tears of blood for hundreds of days and also exuded fragrant oil for
many months, the Bishop of the area would not hesitate to order a
scientific examination of the evidence and interview the witnesses.
Doing so would be a proper and important duty for the Bishop. Especially
in the cases of tears, blood, and oil, a prompt scientific examination
is essential because the fresh and untouched condition of the evidence
may not last very long. During the past 27 years since the first miracle
in 1985, the Gwangju Archdiocese has not ordered a single scientific
examination. A layman, a retired businessman, had been deploring this
situation and, volunteering to pay the expenses and with the assistance
of the volunteer workers in Naju, collected many samples of the evidence
and brought them to the laboratory of Forensic Medicine at Seoul
National University and also to another laboratory in Seoul which
performs DNA tests for the police force and other clients. The samples
presented were pieces of cloth stained with bloody tears from the
Blessed Mother's statue; pieces of cloth stained with the blood from a
Eucharistic miracle; and a dozen little rocks stained with the blood
that descended on the Blessed Mother's Mountain in Naju. The test
results confirmed that (1) all the blood samples were human blood; (2)
the blood from the Eucharistic miracle belonged to one male human person
with the blood type of AB, the same as in Lanciano and Torino, Italy;
and (3) the blood that descended on the little rocks were mostly from
one same male human being with blood type of AB, whereas the blood on
two of the little rocks belonged to one female human person with blood
type of B. Dr. Jung-Bin Lee, who was in charge of the DNA tests at Seoul
National University, issued the complete test results on September 8,
2003. Dr. Lee was not a Catholic and had not been eager about examining
the samples brought from Naju, but his interest grew substantially, as
the samples collected and presented at different times produced exactly
same results again and again, indicating that all of the blood samples
belonged to one same male person (except two samples that belonged to a
female person, most likely the Blessed Mother. Julia's blood type is
"O".)

Soon after the Gwangju Archdiocese's
first negative Declaration was issued on January 1, 1998, a layman asked
a monsignor in Korea about the Declaration, "Why did they issue
the Declaration, when they had not done any scientific examinations or
interviewed the witnesses?" The monsignor answered, "The
phenomena in Naju have already been found to be in conflict with the
Church teachings. Why should we concern ourselves with scientific
examinations?" There is no question that the doctrinal
soundness of the reported messages and miracles is more important than
the results of scientific examinations or the testimonies by the
witnesses. If the events in Naju were truly inconsistent with any of the
Catholic Church Teachings, which are based on God's Revelations, the
Gwangju Archdiocese's decision not to conduct any scientific
examinations or interview the witnesses could be fully justified. For
this reason, it seems important to review the Gwangju Declarations for
its doctrinal soundness.

The alleged doctrinal errors of the phenomena in Naju
served as the main grounds for Gwangju Archdiocese's condemnation of
Naju

It is stated in the Gwangju Archdiocese's
first Declaration on Naju that the alleged phenomenon, that as
soon as Mrs. Julia Youn received the Eucharist, it was changed into a
lump of bloody flesh in her mouth is also contrary to the doctrine of
the Catholic Church that says that even after the bread and wine are
transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ with the formula of
priests' consecration, the species of bread and wine remain (1.2).
We believe that this doctrinal statement by the Gwangju Archdiocese
itself is inconsistent with the true and authentic teachings of the
Catholic Church and, therefore, is a distortion of the Church teaching
and a doctrinal error. We have been taught by the Church that the
consecration of bread and wine by a priest during the Mass results in
the changes of the substances of bread and wine into the substances of
Our Lord's Flesh and Blood without being accompanied by any changes in
the species of bread and wine. In other words, the priest's consecration
does not have the power or effect of changing the species of bread and
wine in any manner. The Gwangju Archdiocese seems to have distorted this
meaning and falsely insisted that the species of bread and wine must
continue to remain unchanged even after the act of consecration is
completed, which precludes the occurrence of any Eucharistic miracle and
even condemns the natural changes of the Eucharist in the recipient's
body or in the tabernacle over time as violating the Church doctrine. We
believe that the Gwangju Archdiocese's assertion that the species of
bread and wine must remain unchanged even after the consecration does
not exist in the Church doctrine. We understand that it is among the
most serious and dangerous evils in the Church when those with the
teaching authority distort any of the authentic Church teachings and
mislead the faithful.

It is also stated in the Gwangju
Archdiocese's first Declaration on Naju that the phenomenon
alleged as a miracle of the Eucharist fallen from heaven is
contradictory to the doctrine of the Catholic Church that says that only
through the legitimately ordained priest's consecration does the
sacrament of the Eucharist begin to exist (1.2). We believe that
this statement also is inconsistent with the Catholic Church teaching
and, therefore, is an error. According to what we have been taught by
the Church, the power of Eucharistic consecration belongs to the
legitimately ordained Catholic priests only and does not belong to the
lay members of the Church or the clergy of other religions. This
teaching was pronounced during the Fourth Lateran Council in the 13th
Century in order to condemn the Waldensian heresy that insisted that all
members of the Church had the priestly power. We believe that the true
teaching of the Church does not contain any concept that even Our Lord,
Who is the Highest Priest and the source of all priestly powers, cannot
form the Eucharist without relying on his ministers on earth, which
seems to elevate the power of priests above the Lord's and condemn all
of the miracles that have occurred to many of the Saints who received
Communion directly from the Lord or through the Angels.

The Gwangju Archdiocese condemned the
reported supernatural events in Naju based on their version of doctrinal
statements and imposed many severe prohibitions on the faithful based on
the same doctrinal statements. If the Gwangju Archdiocese's doctrinal
statements are really incorrect and are errors, its condemnation of Naju
also collapses; likewise for all of its measures of prohibitions imposed
on Naju and its pilgrims. To restore justice, the restrictions on the
visits, prayer meeting, Masses, Confessions, and publications in
connection with Naju should be lifted, if the doctrinal basis for these
measures is found to be false. In the secular society, any laws and
prohibitions that contradict the nation's Constitution are declared
invalid and removed. The Church, which is the Teacher of the revealed
truths from God, must maintain the strictest standards regarding the
integrity and soundness of what her members absorb and, even more
crucially, what the shepherds feed the minds of the members.

The Declaration also mentions a
problem in the Blessed Mother's message during Archbishop Giovanni
Bulaitis' visit to Naju on November 24, 1994 which says that she
had St. Michael the Archangel bring the Eucharist from a priest in sin.
The Declaration says: According to the Church teaching, the
sacraments administered even by a priest in grave sin if he celebrates
in accordance with the intention of the Church, Christ and His Holy
Spirit operate in him and, the message contradicted this teaching (1.2).
However, according to the message from the Blessed Mother, what St.
Michael the Archangel brought to Naju from the priest in sin was not
just a host but the true Eucharist. Therefore, the validity of the
consecration by the priest in sin was never denied. The Gwangju
Archdiocese's complaint here arose from their misunderstanding of the
facts, even though the Church teaching was correctly stated.

The Gwangju Archdiocese also states in
its Declaration as follows:

Various strange phenomena which happened
to Mrs. Julia Youn and in her circumference (phenomena arising from her
body, and the statue of the Blessed Mother), personal vision also
produce no evidence which prove that they are truly supernatural and
thus from God. Perhaps, they can be said to show some preternatural
power (1.3).

It is the Gwangju Archdiocese itself that
has neglected or refused to conduct scientific examinations and
interviews with the witnesses and, therefore, blocked the way of finding
out if the reported miracles were true or not. The Gwangju Archdiocese
is blaming Naju for its own fault. Also, they said that these
phenomena can be said to show some preternatural power. This is
only a speculation based on their suspicion rather than a statement
based on the Church teachings, physical examinations, and interviews
with the witnesses. It would have been better if the Gwangju Archdiocese
avoided such ambiguous and careless comments.

It has been known that, in late 1997,
there was a heated debate in the Korean Bishops' Conference before the
Gwangju Archdiocese issued its first negative Declaration on Naju on
January 1, 1998. When some of the Bishops spoke against the Declaration,
several priests, who had studied in Europe under the famous theologians
like Fr. Karl Rahner, Fr. Hans Kng, and the like (also heavily
influenced by Fr. Teilhard de Chardin and Fr. Leonardo Boff), had
received doctoral degrees, and had returned home with a burning ambition
to drastically reform and modernize the Church in Korea, insulted the
Bishops by shouting at them: "Why are you trying to defend
superstitions?" It was a most shameful moment in the
history of the Korean Catholic Church.

The Gwangju Archdiocese's Declaration was a defiance
to Pope John Paul II

As mentioned earlier, Pope John Paul II
advised the Korean Bishops during their ad limina visit in 1996
to share the wonderful grace of Naju with other nations in Asia.
The Pope's advice was not a casual one or lightly taken. The Holy Father
had already received substantial information about Naju by that time and
probably even envisioned the future shrine in Naju serving as a
bridgehead for evangelizing the nations on the huge Asian continent,
where most of the populations are still pagans. Also during the same adlimina visit by the Korean Bishops in 1996, the Holy Father asked
Bishop William McNaughton of the Incheon Diocese in Korea, "What
do you think of Naju?" The Bishop answered, "I
believe it is truthful." The Holy Father said further,
"I also saw the Eucharist changed into Flesh and Blood in
Julia's mouth." However, on January 1, 1998, two years
after the 1996 ad limina visit, when the Bishops had heard the
Holy Father asking them to share the grace of Naju with others in
Asia, the Gwangju Archdiocese announced the Declaration condemn-ing
Naju based on their distorted doctrinal statements and with the consent
of other dioceses in Korea. The problems in their doctrinal statements
still remain uncorrected. The Church teaches, "Heresy is the
obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed
with divine and catholic faith" (Catechism of the Catholic
Church #2089) and also, "An apostate from the faith, a
heretic or a schismatic incurs automatic excommunication and if a
cleric, he can also be punished by the penalties mentioned in can. 1336,
#1" (Canon Law #1364). Doctrinal errors, especially when
sustained or promoted by the clergy, should never be left uncorrected
for a long time, as they continue causing insidious damages to the life
in the Church without fail.

The Gwangju Archdiocese was not in unity with the
Holy See about the Declaration

In late 1997, before the Gwangju
Archdiocese's negative Declaration on Naju was issued (in January 1998),
the priests of the Gwangju Archdiocese presented the draft of the
Declaration to the Congregation for Evangelization of Peoples (the CEP)
in the Vatican. The CEP's approval was necessary, as it was the highest
office in the Holy See for overseeing and guiding the Church in Korea,
as Korea was (and still is) considered a mission territory with about
90% of the population being non-Catholics. The CEP officials examined
the draft and did not approve it. The Gwangju priests made some cosmetic
changes and re-submitted the draft. The CEP still did not approve it and
instructed the Gwangju priests to get consent from all of the Bishops in
Korea. As several of the Bishops in Korea were opposed to the
Declaration, it was not possible to get unanimous agreement. Then, the
Gwangju priests gave up hope at the CEP and contacted the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith (the CDF) and somehow succeeded in
receiving the approval. At that time, we did not know who in the CDF
gave the approval to the Gwangju priests. Then, in May 1999, a Catholic
newspaper in Korea reported that a high official of the CDF, an
Archbishop, visited Japan to attend a Blue Army conference and made a
side trip to the harbor city of Busan in South Korea to meet Archbishop
Victorinus Gong-Hee Youn from Gwangju (Busan is about 200 miles east of
Gwangju). The contents of the meeting were not publicized. Then,
Archbishop Victorinus Youn summoned Fr. Aloysius Chang to his office in
Gwangju and told Fr. Chang that he had met the Archbishop from the CDF.
Archbishop Youn then cautioned Fr. Chang not to be shaky about the
Declaration but to obey its contents. Even though we did not know all
the details of the conversation between the two Archbishops, it seemed
clear that the Archbishop from the CDF came to see the Archbishop of
Gwangju, because he was concerned about the many criticisms arising
about the Declaration and wanted to hear from the Archbishop of Gwangju
that he would remain firm about the Declaration. We have several
questions about the approval of the Gwangju Archdiocese's Declaraiton on
Naju by the Archbishop representing the CDF:

The Archbishop of the CDF, who, we believe, gave
the approval to the Gwangju Archdiocese for issuing the Declaration
on Naju, did so despite the fact that Pope John Paul II had been
clearly favorable on Naju, which must have been well known in the
Vatican especially after the Eucharistic miracle on October 31,
1995. The Archbishop's decision and act contradicted the Holy
Father's position on Naju.

The Archbishop of the CDF, who approved the Gwangju
Declaration, did so despite the CEP's refusal to approve the same
Declaration and despite the fact that the CEP had been (and still
is) the highest pastoral authority under the Pope over the Korean
Catholic Church for the past several decades. He should have been
more respectful to the position and decisions chosen by the CEP and
sufficiently consulted with its officials before he considered
approving the Gwangju Declaration. We wonder if this Archbishop of
the CDF had sufficient information about the Church in Korea and
sufficient authority in the Holy See to be able to abruptly reverse
the position and decisions of the CEP. Also, even afterwards, this
Archbishop of the CDF had to present his reasons for reversing the
CEP decision to the CEP officials and others who wished to know what
happened. In August of 1998, seven months after the Gwangju
Declaration was announced, we at Mary's Touch By Mail received a
letter from Archbishop Marcello Zago, O.M.I., the Secretary of the
CEP thanking us for sending information about Naju and also
encouraging us in seeking the truths and justice about Naju.
(Archbishop Zago became ill in 1999 and died in 2001 at the early
age of 68.) Back in March of 1998, the CEP also sent a letter to the
Korean Bishops' Conference with a warning to three priests in Korea
who had been active in criticizing the authentic Catholic Teachings
and Tradition. One of these three priests was a leading member of
the Gwangju Archdiocese's Naju Investigation Committee. He has been
invited several times to speak at the conference in New Jersey
hosted by We-Are-Church movement
headquartered in Austria. All three priests are still actively
spreading the Modernist errors in Korea, because the Bishops are
lenient to dissident ideas. In the spring of 1998, the CEP sent
another letter to the Korean Bishops concerning an article that
another priest wrote in the official magazine of the Korean Bishops'
Conference: "Pastoral
Care", in which the priest proudly disclosed,
"The real reason for the Gwangju Archdiocese's rejecting
the phenomenon of Ôthe Eucharistic miracle' in Naju was to promote
the unity with the Protestant brethren". The Gwangju
Archbishop had to remove this priest (a Ph.D. in Doctrinal Theology
from Europe) from his teaching position at Catholic University of
the Gwangju Archdiocese. He had also been a key member (the general
secretary) of the Naju Investigation Committee.

We assume that the Archbishop of the CDF who
approved the Gwangju Archdiocese's Declaration did examine the
contents of the Declaration before he approved it. Then, he must
have also noticed the doctrinal errors and other problems in the
Gwangju Declaration. Even many of the lay people can see the obvious
errors and ambiguities in the Gwangju Declaration and conclude that
the Declaration simply does not provide sufficient credible grounds
for justifying the negative conclusion on Naju. It seems that, when
the doctrinal and other problems in the Gwangju Declaration are
confirmed, the Archbishop of the CDF, who approved the Gwangju
Archdiocese's Declaration, will not be free from the responsibility
for its problems, as he exercised his enormously lofty authority and
power to allow the Gwangju Declaration to be spread all over the
world, which has subsequently been blocking countless people in the
world from learning about Naju and visiting Naju and also stifling
the progress toward the official recognition of Naju.

His Eminence Josef Cardinal Ratzinger, the Prefect
of the CDF from 1981 to 2005 and a giant pillar against the
modernist errors, must have very well known about Pope John Paul
II's thoughts and position regarding everything including Naju. A
scientist from Bolivia, who met several Bishops in the CDF in 2003
and earlier, told us that he was convinced that His Eminence was
positive on Naju. This makes us raise the question if the Archbishop
of the CDF, who approved the Gwangju Archdiocese's Declaration, had
fully informed the Prefect about its nature and contents before the
Archbishop sent the okay sign to the Gwangju priests. The Gwangju
priests have repeatedly said that they had been in close
consultation and unity with the Holy See about the Declaration. We
protest against this claim, as any high official of a Congregation
in the Vatican alone does not represent the Holy See, especially
when his position does not conform to those of the Pope and of
another Congregation also competent on the issue.

The Decree, the last sword that the Gwangju
Archdiocese drew

In late November of 2007, the Korean
Bishops again made their ad limina visit to the Vatican. Months
before the Bishops left for Rome, the priest in Gwangju, who had been
the leader in opposing Naju, cooperated with the staffs of the PD
Note Book program in MBC TV, a commercial company in Seoul, to
produce a DVD filled with fabrications and distortions for the purpose
of slandering and permanently burying Naju. They planned to spread
this DVD all over Korea and the whole world including the Vatican. (Note:
On different issues, the staffs of the PD Note Book program had
been sued by the Korean Government and, on a different issue, by a
Catholic priest who founded and manages a charitable organization for
the poorest in Korea for broadcasting untrue accusations. In both
cases, the PD Note Book staffs lost in court and had to pay
penalties. They have been known for their recklessness and poor
credibility since a long time ago. Despite the many false accusations
against Naju in the DVD, the Naju people have not sued the PD Note
Book program makers in MBC TV Company.) The Gwangju priest gave
copies of the Italian version of this DVD to Archbishop Andrew
Chang-Moo Choi so that he could take them to the officials in the Holy
See. The Bishops and priests at the CEP, however, had received the
information about this DVD beforehand and judged it as not worthy to
be considered by the Holy See. Thus, the CEP officials did not show
any interest in it. Cardinal Ivan Dias, the Prefect of the CEP, met
all the Korean Bishops on the last day of their visit and said, "Why
are you not accepting Naju? Accept it." Archbishop Andrew
Choi of Gwangju made a separate visit to the CDF, but the officials
there also said the same thing. After he returned to Korea, Archbishop
Choi told the priests in his Archdiocese: "The Holy See was
like a public relations office for Naju!" He also said,
"The priests in the Gwangju Archdiocese should pray more as
Fr. Aloysius Chang". He made other similar comments as
well, which sounded like telling the priests to soften their harsh
position on Naju. These comments by Archbishop Choi were heard by Fr.
Aloysius Chang, who was, at that time, leading a life of confinement
in the Archdiocesan office building (to prevent him from visiting Naju).
The Gwangju priests were greatly alerted and hurriedly drafted a
Decree with extreme contents. They had Archbishop Andrew Choi sign it
and announce it on January 21, 2008. It is stated in this Decree,
"Fr. Aloysius Chang is expelled from Gwangju Archdiocese,"
and "Whoever visits Naju, regardless of his status and
diocese, is automatically excommunicated." Many of the
faithful around the world were shaking with fear and the number of
pilgrims to Naju plummeted for several months, whereas many others who
were better informed were lamenting over the extreme and abusive acts
of the Gwangju Archdiocese.

After receiving a copy of the Decree
from Archbishop Andrew Choi dated January 21, 2008, Fr. Aloysius Chang
mailed a letter to the Archbishop petitioning for the revocation of
the expulsion order. A few days later, Fr. Chang received a brief
letter from Archbishop Choi refusing his petition. Fr. Chang, then,
went to Rome in the mid-February of 2008 and visited the Congregations
for the Doctrine of the Faith, for Clergy, and for the Evangelization
of Peoples pleading for help. At all three Congregations, Fr. Chang
was received kindly and sympathetically by the monsignors and priests.
They said that they had been well informed about the current situation
in Korea and were willing to help Fr. Chang restore his status. On the
last day in Rome, Fr. Chang had an audience with Cardinal Ivan Dias,
the Prefect of the CEP who just came back from China. His Eminence
said that the problem involving Fr. Chang could be resolved soon, but
the recognition of Naju by the Church would take more time. He asked
those who were present to pray harder that the Blessed Mother could
remove the obstacle. A few weeks later, His Eminence sent a letter to
Archbishop Andrew Choi of Gwangju which included the following
instruction:

"As what is happening in Naju
is considered a private revelation, the restrictions on the pilgrims and
Fr. Aloysius Chang must be lifted. Fr. Chang can celebrate Mass."

This letter by the Prefect of the CEP was
an instruction to the Gwangju Archbishop that he should lift the
prohibitions announced in the Declarations on Naju. It also meant that
extreme statements in the Decree must be revoked. The priests of Gwangju
Archdiocese have admitted that they received this letter, but have not
made its contents public. Nor has there been any written announcement
from the Gwangju Archdiocese revoking its restrictions and prohibitions
on Naju. His Eminence Cardinal Dias retired from his position in the CEP
on May 10, 2011, but his official letter to the Gwangju Archbishop
remains valid. Because of Cardinal Dias' letter and also because of the
CDF's official neutral position on Naju of Non constat de
supernaturalitate, which is discussed below, the Gwangju Archdiocese
must allow non-official pilgrimages to Naju, prayer meetings, Masses,
and Sacraments for the pastoral care of the pilgrims. However, the
actual reality has not reached that level yet. The faithful still suffer
from the restrictions and discriminations.

6. The conclusion in the Gwangju
Archdiocese's Declaration contradicts the CDF's official position on
Naju

The CDF's official position on Naju has
consistently been Non constat de supernaturalitate, which
means that the Congregation is not ready yet to conclusively discern
Naju either positively or negatively. If the Gwangju Archdiocse had
conducted scientific examinations of the evidence and interviewed the
witnesses, the CDF would have been better ready to take a more certain
position. In any case, the official position of the CDF indicates that
it needs to observe and examine the situation in Naju further. In order
to enable the CDF to do so, it is essential that the faithful be left
free to access the facts of Naju and express their responses. In order
to correctly evaluate the fruits, the Church officials must allow the
tree to grow naturally instead of cutting it down or blocking the water
supply. The fact is that the Korean faithful who visit Naju are still
discriminated against in their parishes; and all priests and religious
in Korea are still totally prohibited to visit Naju or to speak
favorably about Naju. The CDF says: Non constat de
supernaturalitate, but the Gwangju Archdiocese says the
equivalent of Constat de non supernaturalitate which means
Confirming that it is not supernatural. When the Church
authorities contradict each other, the faithful are greatly confused and
misled.

7. True obedience does not mean
blind, unconditional obedience

The Second Vatican Council teaches as
follows:

"Man has the right to act in
conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions. He
must not be forced to act contrary to his conscience. Nor must he be
prevented from acting according to his conscience, especially in
religious matters." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1782)

Actually, the teachers of the truths from
God need not use coercion at all toward the faithful, as the truths have
the natural tendency and ability to resonate beautifully with the
conscience of those who receive them filling their minds and hearts with
joy and peace. On the other hand, the coercive methods bring fear,
darkness, and pain to the victims and deprive them of true happiness and
peace. If the events in Naju were not coming from God, they would make
noises for a while but fade away eventually. On the other hand, if they
are truly coming from God, men will not be able to put an end to them
regardless of how hard they try and will be fighting God Himself (cf.
Acts 5:38-39).

Ever since the announcement of the first
Declaration, the Gwangju Archdiocese and other dioceses in Korea have
pressured the faithful to blindly and unconditionally accept and obey
the contents of the Gwangju Declaration on Naju without asking any
questions. This cannot be the right way of guiding and teaching the
people or tending the sheep. The shepherds in the Church have the
authority to correctly guide people to God, but, at the same time, have
the duty to respect the faithful's freedom and decisions that are based
on their conscience. Unless there are obvious and, especially,
intentional deviations from the right road, the shepherds must not use
coercion. But, in the case of the documents and measures announced by
the Gwangju Archdiocese about Naju, they have been forcing the faithful
to accept and obey the contents of the Declaration regardless of whether
they are right or wrong. True obedience is a most beautiful and
necessary virtue in the Church, but the obedience that ignores our
conscience and contradicts the true teachings of God cannot be
acceptable or pleasing to God. St. Francis de Sales said that, if one
obeys the erroneous or unjust orders from his superiors, he also sins.
Demanding blind and unconditional obedience is a practice that belongs
to the dark societies of mafia or dictatorships only.

The real reasons why they oppose Naju

In March 2001, Archbishop Andrew Chang-Moo
Choi, who succeeded Archbishop Victorinus Youn, summoned Julia Kim and
Julio Kim, her husband, to the education building at Naju parish church
for an interview. During the meeting, Archbishop Choi made some
tremendously significant comments. First, the Archbishop said, "The
Naju Investigation Committee of the Gwangju Archdiocese examined the
phenomena in Naju not by the standard of whether they were true or not but
by the standard of whether they hurt the unity in the Church or not."
He also said, "The phenomena in Naju are not compatible with
the sentiments in Korea". These two comments by Archbishop
Choi describe the situation in Korea very accurately. Naju was condemned
by the liberal priests who dominated the Naju Investigation Committee,
because they thought that what was happening in Naju was a threat to the
modernization and secularization of the Korean Church that have been
accomplished in the past several decades. Whether the events in Naju were
truly from the Blessed Mother and the Lord or not has been outside their
interest. The progressive liberal forces' priority has been to transform
the Church into one that serves their interests and conform to their
sentiments than truly serving God and observing His Commandments. Because
of the tenacious efforts of the liberal priests since the mid-1960s, there
have been enormous changes in how the people in the Korean Church believe
and live. Of course, there still are a substantial number of priests and
lay people who want to remain faithful to the authentic and traditional
Catholic Faith and lament over the current situation, but they seem too
weak to consolidate their efforts and fight against the tidal waves of the
new spirit that is prevailing in the Church in Korea. The following is a
summary of the major changes that have occurred in the Catholic Church in
Korea:

Jesus is recognized only as a great teacher on the
same level of Buddha, Confucious, Mensius, and others, while the
belief in His Divinity is weakening and disappearing.

When the true Divinity of Jesus is not recognized,
the supernatural nature of the Church that He founded also becomes
forgotten. The Mass and all Sacraments are perceived only as mere
signs without supernatural substance.

When Jesus is thought to be merely a human being and,
therefore, a creature, people stop calling His Mother "the Mother
of God". Neither do they want to pray theHail
Mary or the rosary. They find no reason to specially respect
His Mother or pray for her intercession. In most churches in Korea,
there is no morning Mass on Saturdays. This means that the Saturday
Masses in honor of Our Lady have been eliminated, as the evening
Masses are Vigil Masses for Sunday.

If the Divinity of Jesus and the supernatural nature
of the Church are denied, the Resurrection of Jesus from death is also
downgraded to the level of a myth or fable. The accounts of all other
miracles performed by Jesus are also despised as fictions. (We need to
keep in mind the stern warning issued by the First Vatican Council
(1869-1870) regarding miracles: "If anyone shall have said
that miracles are not possible, and hence that all accounts of them,
even those contained in Sacred Scripture, are to be banished among the
fables and myths; or, that miracles can never be known with certitude,
and that the divine origin of the Christian religion cannot be
correctly proved by them: let them be anathema" (DS
#3034).

The doctrine of the Real Presence of Our Lord in the
Eucharist becomes replaced by the Protestant idea that the bread and
wine at the Last Supper only signify the Body and Blood of Jesus.
There is no reason to pray before the tabernacle or humbly receive the
Communion on tongue and kneeling. Kneelers have long since disappeared
from almost all of the Catholic churches in Korea, and Communion in
the hand has almost become a law. (Fr. Karl Rahner, a famous
theologian who played an active role in the committees of the Second
Vatican Council, said, "As the Eucharist is given to us as
spiritual food, (the particles of the Eucharist) that do not have the
appearance of food cannot be recognized as the Eucharist",
and thus greatly promoted the sacrilegious practice of mishandling the
Eucharistic particles in many churches around the world. We should
thoroughly beware of those theologians who do not hesitate to alter
the authentic Church teachings and invent new ones according to their
own taste and based on their own authority. They are the wolves that
bite and kill the sheep with the poison of their errors and bad
examples.)

It is being forgotten that our sins are the greatest
obstacles that prevent us from drawing closer to God and entering His
Kingdom. Instead, it is being emphasized that God has always and
necessarily resided within us and united with us as one. Accordingly,
what we want is what God wants. What we choose and do cannot be a sin
or a violation of the will of a God who exists outside us.
Consequently, people easily ignore the need for doing repentance,
Confessions, or reparation. As sin is no longer feared, the role of
Jesus as our Redeemer and Savior is thought not important or relevant.
If Jesus is not recognized as the only Savior for the human race,
there is no reason to believe that the Catholic Church is the only
Church established by God for our salvation (cf. Catechism of the
Catholic Church #751-870). Differences among religions become
meaningless. Neither is there any need for missionary efforts any
longer.

As the evil of sin is perceived as irrelevant, the
idea of sanctification also fades away from our minds. The Protestant
idea that we are saved solely by our faith with which we recognize
Jesus as our Savior prevails. People no longer pay attention to St.
Paul's teaching: "This is the will of God, your
sanctification" (1 Thessalonians 4:3). As the concept of
sanctity disappears, the zeal to imitate the Saints also weakens. In
many of the Catholic bookstores, the number of the books on the Lives
of Saints has already been drastically reduced.

Many people, especially those infected with modernist
theology, accept God as the Creator of the universe, but reject that
God continues to be the Lord and King of the universe, constantly
sustaining the world and our lives and intervening in the flow of
human history to correctly lead people to sanctification and
salvation. Thus, they develop a strong tendency to dislike and reject
the special revelations like messages and miracles with which God
intervenes in our life to help us. They like to believe that they
themselves are the lords of history and refuse to go back to the
God-centered life as in the Middle Ages. They also develop the
tendency to ignore the legitimate authority that God has planted on
earth, especially the Papacy. They do not hesitate to disobey the Pope
or even to yell at their Bishops. In fact, they cannot be called the
true children of God but are the enemy soldiers who infiltrated God's
Castle (His Church) hiding in the Trojan Horse for the sole purpose of
destroying the Church. (For more testimony on the situation in Korea,
please read Bishop Roman Danylak's letter to Frau Ccilia Pohl of
Wuppertal, Germany, dated November 16, 2001.)

Some Reflections

The Blessed Mother visited and spoke to
Sister Mariana of Quito, Ecuador in the early 17th Century through her
statue miraculously made by the Angels and St. Francisco under the name of
Our Lady of Good Success. In her message, the Blessed Mother
predicted that the Church would face a major crisis from the middle of the
20th Century. The Blessed Mother also promised that she would triumph
through her miraculous intervention. It seems possible that her current
spectacular and unceasing activities in Naju are her intervention that she
mentioned in the message to Sister Mariana four centuries ago. The
miracles associated with Our Lady of Good Success were
recognized by the Church in 1611.

We also remember that Pope Leo XIII heard a
conversation between Satan and Our Lord on October 13, 1884 (exactly 33
years before the Blessed Mother's apparition in Fatima). The Holy Father
with several Cardinals and Bishops just finished the Mass, but, suddenly,
the Pope's face turned white and he stood frozen for about 10 minutes,
because he was hearing a conversation between Satan and the Lord. At that
time, Satan was enormously proud and exultant over his rich
accomplishments in causing errors, disorders, and wars in the world. Thus,
he made a challenge to the Lord:

Satan: "I can destroy your
Church."

Our Lord: "You can? Then go ahead and
do so."

Satan: "To do so, I need more time and
more power."

Our Lord: "How much time? How much
power?"

Satan: "75 to 100 years, and a greater
power over those who will give themselves to my service."

Our Lord: "You have the time, you will
have the power. Do with them what you will."

The Holy Father immediately went to his
office and composed the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel and issued the
instruction that this prayer be offered at the end of every low Mass in
all churches in the world. One hundred years after 1884 was 1984. By 1984,
those who had been deeply infected with secularism and modernist theology
had succeeded in misinterpreting and misusing the precious teachings of
the Second Vatican Council and, thus, caused an alarming laxity in the
traditional discipline regarding the Faith and morals in the Church. Satan
could not succeed in destroying the Church as he had boasted, but
certainly succeeded in causing a huge mess and deterioration in the
Church.

Then, on June 30, 1985, one year after
1984, the Blessed Mother came to Naju, Korea, and began the miracles of
shedding tears through her statue in Julia Kim's house. On July 18, 1985,
the Blessed Mother gave her first message to Julia, exactly 155 years
after Sister Catherine Laboure received the Blessed Mother's first message
in the Motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity in Paris on July 18, 1830.
During the 27 years since 1985, Our Lord and the Blessed Mother have been
giving numerous important messages and countless miraculous in Naju, also
healing countless people spiritually and physically. Through the messages
and miracles, Our Lord and Our Lady are reminding us, in the most powerful
and vivid manner, of the authentic Teachings and Commandments entrusted to
the Church and of the Reality of Our Lord's Incarnation, Suffering and
Death, and Resurrection that are being made present through the Mass and
must also permeate all of our life of faith. Our Lord and Our Lady are
trying to urge us to become totally faithful to His Teachings and
Commandments and participate in the sacrifices and efforts of Our Lord and
Our Lady to help save as many people as possible before the Great
Chastisement comes. At the same time, Satan and his forces are frantically
trying to prevent people from recognizing the true meaning and importance
of the special revelations in Naju and, thus, to frustrate the Plan of
Salvation that Our Lord and Our Lady are executing. Satan's interference,
however, will not succeed, as the time allowed to him has expired.
Already, we have entered the new era in which the Blessed Mother will
defeat Satan and his forces with the power from the Holy Trinity and also
with the help of the Angels and Saints in Heaven and her little, poor
children on earth. She says that her Triumph is not far off and urges us
to remain awake and work harder. Based on the credible messages, we
believe that the time of her Triumph will coincide with the Second
Pentecost and the opening of a New Era of Our Lord's reign especially
through His Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist.

Concluding Words

Despite the Declarations and Decree of the local
Church authorities in Korea, there still are a large number of people
including some Bishops and many priests in the world who firmly believe in
the truthfulness of the messages and miraculous signs in Naju. Compared
with the total number of the faithful in the Church or the entire world
population, however, those who are seriously interested in Naju are only a
tiny minority because of the widespread rumor that Naju has been
condemned by the Church. The true fact, however, is that, even though
Naju has been rejected by the local diocese, it has never been negatively
judged by the Holy See. There are countless witnesses in the world
including some Bishops and many priests who have personally experienced
the miracles and examined the messages in Naju and firmly believe their
truthfulness. As explained in this testimony, the negative judgment on
Naju by the local diocese has been based on its doctrinal errors and
failure to conduct scientific examinations or interview the numerous
eyewitnesses. We believe that the fundamental problem of this miserable
situation is doctrinal, that is, about the faith. Those priests infected
with the modernist heresies refuse to recognize the true supernatural
nature of the true miracles and messages or to accept the Divinity of
Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. As a result, they do not believe in the
supernatural contents of the Church, either. We believe that the task of
resolving the current problem should be shared by all members of the
Church through their self-examinations, prayers, and efforts to correct
what has been wrong and harmful. At the same time, the vast majority of
the members of the Church are looking to the highest Sacred Pastors in the
Church, especially the Holy Father and the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith for leading them by decisively correcting the wrongs
especially in handling the issue of Naju, as the local authorities in
Korea have continuously displayed their inability to resolve the
difficulties concerning Naju because of the powerful influence from the
progressive liberal priests. Of course, the stronger leadership from the
top will be faced with fierce resistance and criticisms from the liberal
side, but Our Lord also went through extreme difficulties to complete His
Mission. In her message in Naju on July 13, 1997, the Blessed Mother said,
"The signs that I am giving you in this small country, Korea,
which is my youngest child, are the signs for the Church in the whole
world". On October 15, 2006, she said, "In order
to prevent the disaster, Naju must be approved as soon as possible so that
my messages of love, with which I have been appealing (to all) through the
little soul whom I have chosen, working unprecedented miracles in Naju,
repeating the same words again and again, and showing numerous signs, may
be put into practice. Only then, the whole world can be saved."
On October 19, 2006, Our Lord said, "I earnestly entreat My
extremely beloved Pope, who is My Vicar and the Eldest Son of the Church.
If Naju is officially approved, the Church threatened by heresies and
infected with errors will be reformed, the clergy and religious will be
sanctified, and it will become a place of salvation where sinners repent
and even the numerous sinners who are walking toward hell will be saved.
Therefore, make haste to help Naju to be officially approved. May peace be
with you in the Love of My Mother and Me always."

Declaration:
We owe sincere gratitude to the Bishops, priests, and lay people in
different countries for some of the information contained in this
testimony that we could not have obtained without them. Some of them have
already left this world. We did not indicate their identities, though we
are willing to do so if requested by the appropriate Church authorities.
We deeply respect and admire their lofty integrity and fervent love for
and loyalty to the Mother Church. We assure that all of the information
contained in this testimony is true and correct to the best of our
knowledge and conscience.